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08-21-2006, 10:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Michigan, USA | | | Songs that you can just lay down and think to.
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Ever get in one of those moods when you're upset, but somewhat calm, and you have a lot on your mind, you don't do drugs, and you just want to think? What are those songs that bring you to a musical high/nirvana?
For me, theses songs are great.
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I'll add more as I think of them
EDIT: I'm just attatching something.
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08-22-2006, 07:05 AM
| | | | In my book the greatest song to just sit and think to is grace (live) by Gordian Knot. As the song climaxes, and it seems like there are a thousand sounds ringing at once, it reaches that musical nirvana.
If I'm upset I usually throw that album in, put the song on repeat, and think.
EDIT: Actually, now that I think a little more about it, Gordian Knot is a great band for this kind of stuff. The song Rivers Dancing from their first album is another good one. The guitar solo at the end is probably my favourite of all time.
Graeme
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08-22-2006, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by BassGod In my book the greatest song to just sit and think to is grace (live) by Gordian Knot. As the song climaxes, and it seems like there are a thousand sounds ringing at once, it reaches that musical nirvana.
If I'm upset I usually throw that album in, put the song on repeat, and think.
EDIT: Actually, now that I think a little more about it, Gordian Knot is a great band for this kind of stuff. The song Rivers Dancing from their first album is another good one. The guitar solo at the end is probably my favourite of all time.
Graeme | Good call. Which version of "Grace" do you like better, the version on the first CD or on Emergent?
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08-22-2006, 08:08 AM
| | | | I like the version on Emergent better. I find it's played more emotionally, probably due to it being live. It makes me want to buy a Stick and an Echoplex!
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08-22-2006, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by BassGod I like the version on Emergent better. I find it's played more emotionally, probably due to it being live. It makes me want to buy a Stick and an Echoplex!
Graeme | Yeah, I just bought a Stick! Is the looper he uses an Echoplex?
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08-22-2006, 12:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | My friend did a sculpture installation themed, "Under Water" and asked me to compose to music/atmosphere for him to use. I sampled him playing a baliphone, ocean drum, and other primative percussion instruments - he also played an acoustic guitar with an EBow and various other organic sounds. I did some didgeridooing - Then I composed a piece entitled, "Underwater" for his installation. It was really soothing and is exactly what you describe - the perfect music to relax and think to.
I sent my original composition to my friend in Athens, GA after the show and he added some really cool synth stuff...
This piece will put you in a hypnotic trance if you listen to it with headphones and can relax and enjoy it.
Let me know if you think so too...
http://www.mydigitalinnerchild.com/_xfer/Soulcoustic/ocean 40 fm.mp3 |
08-22-2006, 03:07 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | for me its brian eno, terra firma and other ambient songs, and indian music can drop me into another state as well--actually a tabla/tanpura duet is enough for me for the most part 
also, not to toot my own horn, i like to put on some of the ambient songs that I made, or the ones i made with my german friend, Rainer. He recorded a jam we did over the ninjam server and we both did some ambient/experimental/looped pieces that can take me to another place
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08-22-2006, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Petary791 Yeah, I just bought a Stick! Is the looper he uses an Echoplex? | Yup. It's in the Emergent booklet I believe.
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08-22-2006, 11:46 PM
| | | | A lot of Tool stuff qualifies.
off of Lateralus:
Parabol/Parabola
Schism
Lateralus
Disposition
Reflection
Ænima:
46 & 2
Third Eye
Salvial:
No Quarter
All Of Opeth's 'Damnation' album
Pink Floyd:
All of the 'Animals' album
Atom Heart Mother (title track)
Echoes (off of Meddle)
Most of the 'More' album
All Of the 'Wish You Were Here' album
The live Ummagumma version of 'Careful With that Axe, Eugene', 'Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun' and 'A Saucerful Of Secrets'
Most Of Dark Side
'Embryo' off of 'Works'
All of Blue Man Group's First album (can't remeber name)
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08-23-2006, 12:15 AM
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08-23-2006, 01:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pompano Beach, FL | | | pretty much anything instrumental, especially jazz (or the previously noted floyd), with a super special nod towards mahavishnu orchestra - "birds of fire", which i am going to lay down and listen to right now |
08-23-2006, 02:16 AM
| | | | for me it is opeth, megadeth, and iron maiden |
08-23-2006, 04:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | | Isis, Pelican, SunnO))) or Electric Wizzard.
Isis and Pelican especially
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08-23-2006, 04:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas, USSA | | | I like the mention of Mars, Bringer of War by Gustav Holst! That's the inspiration for Darth Vader's theme by John Williams. Very intense piece! |
08-23-2006, 07:22 AM
|  | Four on the floor | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: 大和/Alyeska | | | My favorite CD for that would be David Arkenstone's Valley in the Clouds.
It's new age but it's the only one that I never got tired of.
I think it was originally released in '88 and the gal at the health food store in Valdez turned me on to it. |
08-23-2006, 07:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NY | | | Anything Pink Floyd. [/thread] |
08-23-2006, 07:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas, USSA | | | "Catalina Kiss" by Acoustic Alchemy. Reminds me of my Laguna Beach days. |
08-23-2006, 07:54 AM
| | Four on the floor | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: 大和/Alyeska | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Bassic83 "Catalina Kiss" by Acoustic Alchemy. Reminds me of my Laguna Beach days. | I searched for 10 years before finding a song I'd gotten on a minidisc someone else recorded.
Turned out the song I'd been searching for was London Skyline by Acoustic Alchemy. |
08-23-2006, 08:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Texas, USSA | | | Good song! I liked Acoustic Alchemy, too bad the one guy died. |
08-23-2006, 10:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Scarborough, Maine | | | Anything by Mono (Halcyon is a personal fav).
Explosions in the sky
GY!BE/A silver mt zion (who i had the pleasure of seeing live recently)
basically anything post-rock is great thinking music.
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